Manjula Narayan reviews Land Where I Flee in The Hindustan Times A nuanced book about family, about relationships and about...
Month: December 2013
Already home to an annual literature jamboree, Jaipur is now set to host a brand new initiative to develop and...
THE NEW ART FORM? Literature appears headed straight for the bin going by what’s happening in the digital world of...
'Sesher Kobita', a film based on Rabindranath Tagore's eponymous novel, is not a modern interpretation of the work, says director...
This month, Pakistani author Musharraf Ali Farooqi launched a new publishing house, Kitab, to promote Urdu literature among children in...
If you are a fan of Robert Fisk’s erudition and his brusque insights on neo-imperialism, mark your calendars for the...
At ChinaFile, the author of the upcoming book, Internet Literature in China, Michel Hockx, emphasizes the need for “archiving ‘born-digital’ books” as huge numbers...
Polish poet Adam Zagajewski is this year's foreign recipient of the fourth Zhongkun International Poetry Prize awarded by Peking University Institute of Poetry Studies. The 68-year-old poet is a teacher at the University of Chicago. Maciej Gaca, culture counselorof the Polish embassy in Beijing, accepted the award on Zagajewski's behalf. Zagajewski is known as the poet who helped soothe thousandsof wounded American hearts after the Sept 11 terrorist attacks.Two weeks after the tragedy, The New Yorker magazinepublished his work, Try to Praise the Mutilated World on its backpage, instead of the normal cartoons. The poem struck a chordwith readers and was widely circulated. Read More
The protagonists in Xue Yiwei's short stories may encounter a variety of scenarios, but theyinevitably find themselves making the same choice: to run away. They run because they lack a sense of belonging in the place they live. The efforts of anindividual are never enough to belong to a collective. This is what comes to mind when I close Taxi Driver, a collection of short stories by Xue. The collection, which was published thisyear, is a series of stories that revolve around the city ofShenzhen. Read More
There are various reasons why people read modern Chinese literature. The works are crowned and affirmed by big literary awards,...
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